The Tarot Garden Sculptures

The Tarot Garden is not just garden. It is also the garden of all those who helped me make it. I am the Architect of the garden. I imposed my vision because I could not do otherwise.

This garden was made with difficulties, love, wild enthusiasm,obsession, and most of all faith. Nothing could have stopped me.

As in all fairy tales, before finding the treasure, I met on my path dragons, sorcerers, magicians, and the Angel of Temperance.

Niki de Saint Phalle

If life is a game of cards we are born without knowing the rules. Yet we must play our hand. Is the tarot pack only a game of cards or is there a philosophy behind it. I am convinced that these cards contain an important message…Throughout the ages poets,alchemists, artists have devoted themselves to discovering their meaning.

Niki de Saint Phalle

The High Priestess with The Magician on top. The Wheel of Fortune is a Jean Tinguely kinetic sculpture just behind the two central visitors. In the background, from left to right, The Empress, The Tower, The Emperor, Justice, The Tree of Life.
The Empress and The Tower (with a Tinguely sculpture spilling over it’s top),